Productive Skills in Second Language Learning》.pdf

Available online at ScienceDirect Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 143 ( 2014 ) 477 – 481 CY-ICER 2014 Productive skills in second language learning Dita Golkovaa * , Sarka Hubackovab a University of Hradec Kralove, Rokitanskeho 62, 50003 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic b University of Hradec Kralove, Rokitanskeho 62, 50003 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Abstract The paper deals with the area of productive skills when teaching a second/foreign language. The text presents both productive skills such as speaking and writing. One of the goals of the paper is to show what strategies and activities are more successful than the others and how a language type can influence the final outcome. The two observed languages are English as a second/foreign language and Czech as a foreign language. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. (/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of CY-ICER 2014. Peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of CY-ICER 2014. Keywords: : Productive skills, classroom activities, heterogeneous class, typology of Czech language; 1. Introduction In this paper much attention will be paid mainly to one category of language skills and those are productive skills. There are two groups of skills that are known and studied in the context of educational process represe